Letter: Why not spend £17bn on existing railways?

Letter: What is this government thinking about spending my money on a £17 billion High Speed rail link (HS2) between Birmingham and London?

What is this obsession with getting from Birmingham to our capital 10 minutes earlier devoiding other manufacturing towns/cities (Wolverhampton/Coventry/Telford) of the same privilege?

What is the reason for Birmingham's new build terminus 15 minutes away from the centre and New Street Station?

Has the government gone mad again when £17 billion could be spent on improving the existing network?

Peter Hassall

Shifnal